Walmart Bests Whole Foods in Study of Food Supply's Human Toll
- Campaign aims to spotlight grocer policies on women, farmers
- Tesco most transparent in survey of EU, U.S. food retailers
A customer shops in the grocery section at a Wal-Mart store in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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Grocers including Walmart Inc., Jumbo Group Ltd. and Whole Foods Market Inc. fared poorly in ratings looking at the treatment of the women, farmers and food-sector workers who supply supermarket shelves in the U.S. and European Union.
Tesco Plc ranked the highest in the first-ever study of supply-chain policies from humanitarian group Oxfam America released late Wednesday, leading in transparency and worker-treatment metrics. Still, it did so with ratings of 29 and 42, respectively, on a 100-point scale.